Note A3-2-2 — Chapter III

Export hindrances have been continued longest in favor of manufacturing industries (Verarbeitungsindustrie), in the case of such commodities as are not intentionally produced, such as rags, ashes, etc., but which are collected only as the remains of some other kind of production or consumption. "Negative production," according to Stilling, Grundsätze der Staatswirthschaft, 803, because it is desirable to produce as little as possible of such raw material. But the dearer rags, for instance, are, the more carefully are they collected.